# 消費者安全法 / Consumer Safety Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 消費者安全法 (Consumer Safety Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十号 - English title "Consumer Safety Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（譲渡等の禁止又は制限） — address `art-41` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十一条（譲渡等の禁止又は制限） — (Prohibitions and Restrictions on Transferring) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、商品等が消費安全性を欠くことにより重大事故等が発生し、かつ、当該重大事故等による被害が拡大し、又は当該重大事故等とその原因を同じくする重大事故等が発生する急迫した危険がある場合（重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大の防止を図るために実施し得る他の法律の規定に基づく措置がある場合を除く。）において、重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大を防止するため特に必要があると認めるときは、必要な限度において、六月以内の期間を定めて、当該商品等（当該商品等が消費安全性を欠く原因となった部品、製造方法その他の事項を共通にする商品等を含む。）を事業として又は事業のために譲渡し、引き渡し、又は役務に使用することを禁止し、又は制限することができる。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-1 If an Actual or Potential Serious Accident has occurred because a good or product is not Safe to Use, and there is imminent danger of instances of harm from that Actual or Potential Serious Accident increasing or imminent danger of an Actual or Potential Serious Accident with the same cause occurring (except when there are measures based on the provisions of any other law that can be taken to prevent Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing), and the Prime Minister finds it particularly necessary to do so in order to prevent Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing, the Prime Minister may designate a period of up to six months in which persons are prohibited or restricted from transferring or delivering the good or product (including any good or product sharing the part, manufacturing method, or other feature that caused the relevant good or product not to be Safe to Use) or using it in their services as their business or to further their business, within the necessary limits. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、重大生命身体被害の発生又は拡大の防止を図るために他の法律の規定に基づく措置が実施し得るに至ったことその他の事由により前項の禁止又は制限の必要がなくなったと認めるときは、同項の規定による禁止又は制限の全部又は一部を解除するものとする。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-2 If the Prime Minister finds that the prohibition or restriction referred to in the preceding paragraph is no longer necessary because it has become possible to take measures based on the provisions of any other law so as to prevent Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing or due to other circumstances, the Prime Minister is to cancel all or part of the prohibition or restriction under that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Prime Minister finds that the prohibition or restriction referred to in the preceding paragraph is no longer necessary because it has become possible to take measures based on the provisions of any other law so as to prevent Instances of Serious Bodily Harm from Occurring or Increasing or due to other circumstances, the Prime Minister may cancel all or part of the prohibition or restriction under that paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb **第三項** 内閣総理大臣は、第一項の規定による禁止若しくは制限をしようとするとき又は前項の規定による禁止若しくは制限の全部若しくは一部の解除をしようとするときは、あらかじめ、消費者委員会の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-3 Before implementing a prohibition or restriction under paragraph (1) or cancelling all or part of a prohibition or restriction under the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must hear the opinions of the Consumer Commission. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の規定による禁止若しくは制限又は第二項の規定による禁止若しくは制限の全部若しくは一部の解除は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、官報に告示して行う。 art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-4 A prohibition or restriction under paragraph (1), or the cancellation of all or part of a prohibition or restriction under paragraph (2) is implemented through the issuance of public notice in the Official Gazette, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-2: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 第一項 → 消費者安全法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-3: 前項 → 消費者安全法 第四十一条第二項 (Article 41, paragraph (2)), art-41/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-2 - art-41/par-4: 第一項 → 消費者安全法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-4: 第二項 → 消費者安全法 第四十一条第二項 (Article 41, paragraph (2)), art-41/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 消費者安全法 第四十一条第二項（譲渡等の禁止又は制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-2 - 消費者安全法 第四十一条第三項（譲渡等の禁止又は制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-3 - 消費者安全法 第四十一条第四項（譲渡等の禁止又は制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-41/par-4 - 消費者安全法 第四十二条第一項（回収等の命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-42/par-1 - 消費者安全法 第五十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumer-safety-act/art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000050/art-51/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Consumer Safety Act, written 2026-11-02 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 消費者安全法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000050/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act (消費者安全法), Article 41, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Consumer Safety Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2887/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 219 — 消費者安全法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01